Toy cash-register.



A. E. JACOBS.

TOY CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24. 1913.

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Patented May 22, 1917.

ARTHUR E. JACOBS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TOY CASH-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented May 22, 1917.

Application filed May 24, 1913. Serial No. 769,629.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, ARTHUR E. JACOBS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Qhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Cash-Registers, of which I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The objects of the invention are to provide a practical and eliicient cash register for childrens use, and which will serve as an L2 eduntional toy and will keep an accurate account of the amount of total sales made from amounts of live cents to forty dollars.

it also contains a drawer for receiving all amounts paid in from which change can be made without operating the other portions of the device.

The invention comprises the combination and arrangement with a suitable case, of register wheels or disks properly spaced to indicate sums of 5 cents and multiples thereof, finger operated keys, and a differential actuating member providing an operating connection between the keys and one register wheel, which in turn operates the other, also independent means are shown for operating the second. wheel.

The invention further comprises the combination and arrangement of parts and construction of the various details hereinafter described, shown in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of case showing the dollar wheel or disk and ratchet for operating the same; Fig. is a transverse section of case showing the differential member and finger operated levers for operating the same; Fig. l is 'a longitudinal section through the front )art of the case showing the registering wheels for dollars and cents; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the dollar wheel; Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the immovable intermediate trip plate; Fig. 7 is a similar view of the cent wheel; Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the differential member showing operating levers therefor; Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the ratchet plate.

In these views A is the case provided with a projecting front in which a cash drawer is slidingly mounted, C is a wheel divided into forty equal spaces, each one of which represents a value of one dollar, the lowest being Zero and the highest 39, the total registration being forty dollars, D is a similar wheel similarly spaced, in forty divisions, each division representing the value of live cents.

There are two sections to this wheel, each section representing the amount of one dollar, and each section comprising twenty divisions, or one-half a circumference.

These wheels are loosely mounted upon a central shaft E which alSO finds bearings in the sides of the case. F is a. differential actuating member or rotatable plate, providing an operating connection between the keys and the first register wheel and by means of which the cents wheel is operated,

and which is provided with a reading opening F, F, corresponding to similar reading openings A", AF in the front wall of the case, when the flash is turned to operate the cents wheel.

This plate F is rotatably mounted upon the shaft E and when turned brings the required numerals upon the cents and dollars wheels both into view in the reading openings.

The series of numerals upon the cents wheel increases in. amounts of live cents for each advance of one space, ten cents for two spaces, and twenty five cents for five spaces, and comprise two series totaling twenty spaces each, or two dollars for one complete revolution.

The series of numerals on the dollar wheel. advance progressively in amounts indicating one dollar for each space progressed, the total amount indicated being %.00 and contained in 40 equal spaces.

The cents wheel is operated by the plate F and in turn operates the dollar wheel and moves it through one space to indicate one dollar for each one half revolution of the cents wheel. One complete revolution of the cents wheel therefore indicates two dollars on the dollar wheel.

The plate F is operated by means of levers 1, 2, 3, and at which are pivoted upon the shaft E and engage shoulders 5, 6, 7, and 8 arranged at different angles respectively upon a lateral extension G of the flash plate.

The levers when pressed downward by the finger tips move the plate F and cents wheel selectively, through 1, 2, 5 and 10 spaces as it may be desired to register, at option five, ten, twenty five or fifty cents. When the lever 4 is operated to register cents the other levers become idlers.

A separate lever 10 engages a separate ratchet plate H which independently operates the dollar wheel, through one space at a time. The levers project through slots S in the case and are limited in their movements by means of the lower edges of the slots.

A spring J returns the plate F after each movement and a spring K returns the ratchet plate H for the dollar wheel.

The cents wheel D is rotated by means of a series of spaced projecting ratchet teeth L, L on its face nearest the flash plate and a spring catch or pawl M on the plate F, which engages the ratchet teeth.

To operate the dollar wheel by the movement of the cents wheel a stationary intermediate trip plate N is provided having opposite openings, 0 O therein. A lug O on this plate enters the bottom of the case and is thereby prevented from rotating. The shaft E passes centrally through this plate.

The cents wheel D is provided with a spring pawl P on its inner face, and the dollars wheel is provided with a series of radial ratchet teeth Q, Q on its inner face, adapted to be engaged by the spring pawl P through the openings 0, O, or twice in one revolution of the cents wheel.

The spring pawl is provided with a hook P" which engages the radial teeth, and rotates the dollar wheel through one space, and is prevented from rotating it again until one half a revolution of the cents wheel has been accomplished, by means of the in clined tooth R upon the pawl P, which engages the edge of the opening 0 and throws out the hook P from engagement with the dollar wheel.

A ratchet plate H which operates the dollar wheel when it is desired to operate it separately is provided with a sprin pawl H which engages the ratchet teeth Hi upon the dollar wheel. A spring Z serves to temporarily retain each wheel after it has been moved.

A drawer B underneath the floor of the register can be employed to hold the cash, and is kept closed by means of a catch T upon the inner end of a lever T which when depressed by a finger operated plate t, releases the drawer and a spring T will throw it out.

An extension of the lever T operates as a hammer for a bell V.

A movable clapper T' can be used so as to give a clear ringing sound.

The lever falls by its own weight to its original position.

Having described the invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The combination with a case and a shaft mounted therein said case provided with reading openings, a dollar wheel and a cents wheel mounted on said shaft, and provided with an equal number of marginal spaces, the spaces on the dollar wheel progressing one unit at a time in value, and the spaces on the cents wheel progressing five units at a time, and arranged thereon in two equal series of a total value of one dollar each, an annular plate rotatable upon said shaft within said case, and about said Wheels, and provided with a reading opening, a series of projections upon said. cents wheel, a spring pawl upon said plate adapted to engage therewith, a series of finger operated keys pivoted on said shaft, and engaging shoulders on said plate, said shoulders set at spaced distances thereon, and engaged by said respective keys, whereby said keys when pressed upon will rotate said plate through predetermined different angles, and stops for said keys in said casing.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand this 15th day of May, 1913.

ARTHUR E. JACOBS.

In presence of WM. M. MONROE, P. BREDEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

